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<span class=large>ZEPHANIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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The destruction of Judah is a type of the Second Coming—It is the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, a day of wrath and trouble.
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The</span> word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 24.">Josiah</a> the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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I will utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 22: 23; 2 Ne. 26: 6; D&C 101: 24.">consume</a> all <i>things</i> from off the land, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR idols; Ezek. 7: 19.">stumblingblocks</a> with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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I will also <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 19: 21.">stretch</a> out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, <i>and</i> the name of the <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR idolatrous priests.">Chemarims</a> with the priests;
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And them that worship the host of heaven upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 12; Jer. 19: 13.">housetops</a>; and them that worship <i>and</i> that swear by the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and that swear by <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 11: 33.">Malcham</a>;
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And them that are <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 11: 10 (9-10).">turned</a> back from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and <i>those</i> that have not sought the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, nor enquired for him.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hab. 2: 20.">Hold</a> thy peace at the presence of the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>: for the <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> at hand: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
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And it shall come to pass in the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 8: 36 (36-37).">apparel</a>.
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In the same day also will I punish all those that leap <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR over; i.e. to plunder and pillage.">on</a> the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>that there shall be</i> the noise of a cry from the fish <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 33: 14.">gate</a>, and an howling from <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/10b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the second quarter, a district of Jerusalem.">the</a> second, and a great crashing from the hills.
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Howl, ye inhabitants of <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a district of Jerusalem.">Maktesh</a>, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
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And it shall come to pass at that time, <i>that</i> I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR complacent, indifferent.">settled</a> on their <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 11.">lees</a>: that say in their heart, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will <sup>c</sup><a href="zeph/1/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mal. 3: 14.">not</a> do good, neither will he do evil.
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Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 5: 11.">build</a> houses, but not inhabit <i>them;</i> and they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 30 (30, 39).">plant</a> vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 4: 5; D&C 110: 16.">great</a> day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> near, <i>it is</i> near, and hasteth greatly, <i>even</i> the voice of the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
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That day <i>is</i> a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG World, End of.">desolation</a>, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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A day of the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB shofar, or ram’s horn.">trumpet</a> and alarm against the <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/1/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 101: 57.">fenced</a> cities, and against the high towers.
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And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/1/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Joel 1: 19 (19-20).">fire</a> of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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